I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Never confuse activity with action.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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